Wells County, Indiana, United States

Details for Wells County

Name

Wells County

Place Type

County

Located in

Indiana, United States

County Seat

Bluffton (Harrison Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		40.7386579		40° 44' 19.2" N
Longitude		-85.1716368		85° 10' 17.9" W

Population

25,948

Elevation

252 m

Surrounding Counties

Allen N
Adams E
Jay SE
Blackford SW
Grant SW
Huntington NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

450337

Histopolis Place ID

155211080

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Wells County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Wells County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Indiana > Wells County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IN/Wells/ (26 Apr 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Wells County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5810&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (24 Dec 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Wells County, Ind. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/WL.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Wells County, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_County,_Indiana (16 Aug 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=881 (27 Aug 2009)

Wells County, Indiana IN, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Wells County, Indiana IN, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5810 (13 Nov 2008)

Wells County, Indiana Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Wells County, Indiana
http://www.interment.net/us/in/wells.htm (16 May 2010)

(page title not available) [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/wells/wells.html (23 Jan 2010)

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Surveys in Wells County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 13 Townships

The Second Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Wells County. You can navigate to any of the 13 survey townships that overlap Wells County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Wells County

9 Townships

Chester	Harrison	Jackson	Jefferson
Lancaster	Liberty	Nottingham	Rockcreek
Union

Cities of Wells County

1 City, 6 Towns, 25 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Bluffton (city)	Craigville	Curryville	Dillman
Domestic	Five Points	Greenville	Greenwood
Jeff	Keystone	Kingsland	Liberty Center
Markle (town)	McNatts	Mount Zion	Murray
North Oaks	Nottingham	Ossian (town)	Petroleum
Phenix	Poneto (town)	Reiffsburg	Riverside
Rockford	Tocsin	Toll Gate Heights	Travisville
Uniondale (town)	Vera Cruz (town)	Wellsburg	Zanesville (town)

Cemeteries of Wells County

26 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Batson	Bloxsom	El Honan	Elm Grove
Fair View	Grannand	Grove	Horeb
Hoverstock	Jones	Linn	McFarren
Miller	Mossburg	Murray	Oak Lawn
Oakland	Old Bluffton	Prairie View	Saint Johns (Harrison Township)
Saint Johns (Union Township)	Snow	Sparks	Spider Hill
St. Johns (* Harrison Township)	St. Johns (* Union Township)	Stahl	Wright

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